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RB58F8: The color and transparency are both very good, as is the position of the doubly terminated crystals on the matrix. Nowadays it is extremely hard to get hold of this material as they came from the construction of the Simplon tunnel. This comes from an exchange with the Zurich museum and has a label from the collection of a technical college.
Simplon railway tunnel, Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais) Switzerland (±1950)
Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 0.79”
Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.31”
With handwritten note & record from the Folch Collection (duplicates)
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